#tempts

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#attempts #conceived #console #discourage #generally

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#between #capital #communication #country #enormous

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#breaking #change #days #future #history

Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film. ↗

— William Gibson

#first-sentences #gibson #dreams

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#dangerous #desire #duality #heterosexuality #perfect

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#attempts #clearly #failures #fiction #had

All sins are attempts to fill voids. ↗

— Simone Weil

#fill #sins

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot. ↗

— Kit Williams

#been #before #chariot #different #different people

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#been #colonial #cut #had #importation

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#desirable #lies #path #proximity #tempts